[dundee] Text editor decision question

[lug at seany.us]

Haven't used emacs in years, but how about nano?

Its fairly decent for most things and displays shortcut keys at the bottom for reference.

Also try vim, the enhanced version of vi. To quote:

Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Barnett" <iainspeed at gmail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, 26 June, 2009 02:18:04 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Text editor decision question

On 25 Jun 2009, at 4:10 pm, Kris Davidson wrote:
>
> which editor do you use and why?, have you tried both etc? Does it
> depend on your particular field of computing, do genuine programmers
> lean towards one, while Sysadmin and networking people another?
>
> Kris

anything terminal based, I use Vi. The key binding are easy to  
remember for the most used things, otherwise it's just  
straightforward editing.

Emacs, I've found it to be fiddly and I always forget the key  
bindings, and the auto-complete modes I've used on it are a bit poo.  
Support for less used modes is worse than on Eclipse.
TextWrangler on a Mac (no autocomplete but lots of very nice  
features). TextMate was alright for a while but I didn't want to pay  
for it.
Eclipse, probaby good for Java but I don't use Java, for most else  
I've used it for (Perl, Haskell, C#) it's a bit lacking. And it takes  
forever to start up. I like the idea behind Mylyn though.
On Windoze nothing beats Visual Studio. In fact, nothing I've used so  
far beats Visual Studio for programming, give MS their credit. (not  
that it's perfect, by a long way)

It's my long held ambition to write a lightweight text editor with  
autocomplete, the most useful feature ever, IMO. I won't be using  
Emacs to write it :)

Actually, Applescript Studio isn't bad. Pity it's just Applescript  
and Mac!

Iain

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